2016: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

  1. Elle (dir: Paul Verhoeven)

  2. The Witch (dir: Robert Eggers; US release date)

  3. Sunset Song (dir: Terence Davies; US release date)

  4. Silence (dir: Martin Scorsese)

  5. Toni Erdmann (dir: Maren Ade)

  6. The Handmaiden (dir: Park Chan-wook)

  7. Embrace of the Serpent (dir: Ciro Guerra; US release date)

  8. Moonlight (dir: Barry Jenkins)

  9. 20th Century Women (dir: Mike Mills)

  10. Certain Women (dir: Kelly Reichardt)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): Arrival (dir: Denis Villeneuve), Everybody Wants Some!! (dir: Richard Linklater), Fire at Sea (dir: Gianfranco Rossi), Hacksaw Ridge (dir: Mel Gibson), Hail, Caesar! (dir: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen), Hell or High Water (dir: David Mackenzie), Jackie (dir: Pablo Larrain), La La Land (dir: Damien Chazelle), Little Sister (dir: Zach Clark), Love & Friendship (dir: Whit Stillman), The Love Witch (dir: Anna Biller), Neruda (dir: Pablo Larrain), Paterson (dir: Jim Jarmusch), Peter and the Farm (dir: Tony Stone), The Shallows (dir: Jaume Collett-Serra), Tale of Tales (dir: Matteo Garrone), Things to Come (dir: Mia Hansen-Love)

Laurent Lafitte and Isabelle Huppert in Paul Verhoeven's Elle

Laurent Lafitte and Isabelle Huppert in Paul Verhoeven's Elle

Best Film of the Year: Elle
Director: Paul Verhoeven Producers: Saïd Ben Saïd, Michel Merkt
US Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics


Paul Verhoeven and Isabelle Huppert on the set of Elle

Paul Verhoeven and Isabelle Huppert on the set of Elle

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Tom Hanks in Clint Eastwood’s Sully

Tom Hanks in Clint Eastwood’s Sully

Best Actor:
Tom Hanks, Sully
2. Adam Driver, Paterson
3.Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
4. Colin Farrell, The Lobster
5. Jeong Jae-yeong, Right Now, Wrong Then

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Isabelle Huppert in Paul Verhoeven's Elle

Isabelle Huppert in Paul Verhoeven's Elle

Best Actress:
Isabelle Huppert, Elle
2. Rebecca Hall, Christine
3. Sandra Hüller, Toni Erdmann
4. Emma Stone, La La Land
5. Zhao Tao, Mountains May Depart

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Mahershala Ali and Alex Hibbert in Barry Jenkins' Moonlight

Mahershala Ali and Alex Hibbert in Barry Jenkins' Moonlight

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Viola Davis in Denzel Washington’s Fences

Viola Davis in Denzel Washington’s Fences

Best Supporting Actress
Viola Davis, Fences
2. Greta Gerwig, 20th Century Women
3.  Zoey Deutch, Everybody Wants Some!!
4. Kim Tae-ri, The Handmaiden
5. Lily Gladstone, Certain Women

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Peter Simonischek and Sandra Hüller in Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann

Peter Simonischek and Sandra Hüller in Maren Ade's Toni Erdmann


Kim Tae-Ri and Kim Min-hee in Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden

Kim Tae-Ri and Kim Min-hee in Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden

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Ashton Sanders in Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight

Ashton Sanders in Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight


Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone in Damien Chazelle's La La Land

Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone in Damien Chazelle's La La Land

Best Original Score
La La Land – Justin Hurwitz
2. The Neon Demon — Cliff Martinez
3. Jackie — Mica Levi
4. Moonlight — Nicholas Britell
5. The Light Between Oceans — Alexnadre Desplat


Forest Whitaker, Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner in Denis Villeneuve's Arrival

Forest Whitaker, Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner in Denis Villeneuve's Arrival


Anya Taylor-Joy in Rogert Eggers' The Witch

Anya Taylor-Joy in Rogert Eggers' The Witch

Best Production Design
The Witch — Craig Lathrop and Mary Kirkland
2. The Handmaiden — Ryo Seong-hie
3. Tale of Tales — Dimitri Capuani and Alessia Anfuso
4. The Nice Guys — Richard Bridgland and Danielle Berman
5. Hail, Caesar! — Jess Gonchor, Nancy Hiagh and Nashon Petrushkin


Samantha Robinson in Anna Biller's The Love Witch

Samantha Robinson in Anna Biller's The Love Witch


Best Visual Effects
Kubo and the Two Strings

2. Doctor Strange
3. Hardcore Henry


Best Sound
Green Room

2. La La Land
3. Sully


Best Makeup
Tale of Tales

2. Suicide Squad
3. The Neon Demon


Ava DuVernay’s 13th

Ava DuVernay’s 13th

Best Documentary Feature
13th — Ava DuVernay

2. Fire at Sea — Gianfranco Rossi
3. Weiner — Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steiberg


Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name

Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name

Best Animated Feature:
Your Name — Makoto Shinkai

2. Sausage Party — Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan
3. Kubo and the Two Strings — Travis Knight


Riz Ahmed and Michael K. Williams in Steven Zaillian’s The Night Of

Best Limited Series:
The Night Of — Steven Zaillian, Richard Price, and Scott Ferguson
2. American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson — Anthony Hemingway, Ryan Murphy, Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski
3. Black Mirror — Charlie Booker


Ezra Edelman’s O.J. Made in America

Ezra Edelman’s O.J. Made in America

Best Documentary Series
O.J. Made in America — Ezra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow
2. The Cuba Libre Story — Emmanuel Amara, Kai Christiansen, Florian Dedio
3. Six Wives with Lucy Worsley — Chloe Moss and Russell England


Best Ensemble Cast: 
Everybody Wants Some!!

Orson Welles' Best First Feature:
Robert Eggers, The Witch

Best Ensemble Cast (dir: Richard Linklater; in alphabetical order): Temple Baker, Will Brittain, Zoey Deutch (pictured), Ryan Guzman, Tyler Hoechlin, Blake Jenner (pictured), J. Quinton Johnson, Glen Powell, Wyatt Russell, and Juston Street

Best First Feature: Anya Taylor-Joy (pictured) in Robert Eggers' The Witch


RECAP

W I N S :

Elle 3,
Moonlight 2, The Witch 2, The 13th 1, Arrival — 1, Everybody Wants Some!! 1, Fences 1, Green Room 1, The Handmaiden 1, Kubo & the Two Strings 1, La La Land 1, The Love Witch 1, Night Of 1, O.J. Made in America 1, Sully 1, Tale of Tales 1, Toni Erdmann 1, Your Name 1


M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :

The Witch 6,
The Handmaiden 5, La La Land 5, Elle 4, Moonlight 4, Silence 4, Toni Erdmann 4, 20th Century Women 3, Everybody Wants Some!! 3, Sunset Song 3, Tale of Tales 3, Arrival 2, Certain Women 2, Hail, Caesar! 2, Hell or High Water 2, Jackie 2, Kubo & the Two Strings 2, Love & Friendship 2, Paterson 2, Sully 2

the year-end project:
2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 20102009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 20022001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1980, 1979, 1978, 1977, 197619751974, 1973, 1972, 1971, 1970, 1969, 1968, 1967, 1966, 1965, 1964, 1963, 1962, 1961, 1960, 1959, 1958, 1957, 1956, 19551954, 1953, 1952, 1951, 1950, 1940 - 1949, 1930 - 1939, 1920 - 1929 + Superlatives Index

Best of the Decade:
2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s